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24.11.2009 Global concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide - the main long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - have reached the highest levels recorded since pre-industrial times, says the World Meteorological Organization’s 2008 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

23.11.2009 "We must end the use of the Export Credit Guarantee Department to promote 'dirty' fossil fuel power stations around the world, and instead make it a champion of green technology." The Shadow International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell unveils a six-point manifesto.

23.11.2009 Measures to stop global warming can be as devastating to tribal peoples as climate change itself, says a new report, The most inconvenient truth of all.

23.11.2009 Large billboard adverts appear today in over 900 locations across England depicting typical British seasons that could soon look very different because of the impacts of climate change.

23.11.2009 The world is dangerously close to reaching temperature thresholds – or “tipping points” – that can unleash devastating environmental, social and economic changes, according to a new report.

19.11.2009 Guyana's groundbreaking forest conservation deal with Norway was to have been with Britain - but London showed little interest. President Jagdeo talks frankly about a project that is setting the pace for a forest agreement as part of the international climate negotiations.

19.11.2009 Guyana is set to become the first country to sign up for the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility - and become a test case for REDD, the forest forest component of the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month. Bow how good is the Guyana project? President Jagdeo, NGOs and journalists discuss the pros and cons.

18.11.2009 The proposed Energy Bill that would allow the British Government to raise money to fund carbon capture and storage demonstration projects "does nothing to prevent new large coal plants being built with only a small fraction of their emissions being captured," a leading environmental group warned today.

18.11.2009 Africa's freshwater resources are under serious threat from climate change and urgent adaptation measures are needed, says a study.

16.11.2009 See how US polluter lobbyists turned the House's Waxman-Markey clean energy bill into a toothless law.